Dear Mikew, Your candid messages on this forum are very admirable. I suggest take note of all the occasions when warning lights switch on in your mind, even the occasion you have told us about. There will be more such occasions. With time, that warning light will shine less brightly. As with narcoti...

carlynnm8, This is account is fascinating as it is heroic in its honesty. Please continue into more detail, especially about precisely what events, or comments, or examples of behavior made you think this residential was carefully planned in advance, and that it was planned in order to break you men...

Last but not least Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. On July 22-24, 1994 AFF conducted an "After the Cult" workshop at the St. Malo Retreat Center in Estes Park, Colorado. Carol Giambalvo, Nancy Miquelon, Hal Mansfield, Roseanne Henry, and I organized the workshop...

Exerpts from Repairing The Soul After A Cult By Janja Lalich, Ph.D. at http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/lalich_janja_repairing_soul.htm "It is our very core, our very belief in ourself and our commitment, it is our very faith in humankind and the world that is exploited and abused and ...

Daska and Bluegreen, This is an interesting discussion. In my view there appear to be important differences between the SES cult and organized religion. Firstly, most religions declare they are religions from the outset. But SES claims it is a school. This would imply the learning of skills in a som...

Bluemoon, Thank you. I invite you to post your notes. It will be a clear message that you cannot be intimidated. Others need to see you do it, and they will follow you out of the prison they are in. This will also be part of your liberation. Free, Thank you. Indeed I posted the material on this thre...

PART TWO How Sexism Serves High-Demand Groups We know that women, trained in passivity and silence, are accustomed to being ignored and discounted, starting in elementary school when the teacher routinely, inadvertently calls on John and Harry and overlooks Sally’s hand (Sadker & Sadker, 1994). ...

PART ONE Publication: Cultic Studies Journal Vol.: 14 No.: 01 Date: 1997 Page(s): 058-084 Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups A Collective of Women Abstract This article explores the invisible dynamics of control and submission in a closed group with which the authors were affil...

Coming Out of the Cults Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. (Excerpted from "Coming Out of the Cults," Psychology Today, January, 1979) Most ex-cult members we have seen struggle at one time or another with some or all of the following difficulties and problems. Not all have all of these problem...

Post-Cult After Effects Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. After exiting a cult, an individual may experience a period of intense and often conflicting emotions. She or he may feel relief to be out of the group, but also may feel grief over the loss of positive elements in the cult, such as friendships, ...